Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS)

👏 Great to hear Louise Gardiner talking about MS183 at the CMRS seminar, hosted in the CRC, yesterday. Thanks to everyone for coming!

Our second PG Symposium is coming up on 30 March!

Join us online to explore more about 'Theories, Frameworks and Concepts' in #ChurchHistory.

If you would like to attend, please email Michael Fraser (mcf24@st-andrews.ac.uk).

ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/pg-symposium...

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📖Join us on Tue 24 Feb for the next CMRS Seminar by our very own Louise Gardiner:

'Royal Correspondence in Late Fourteenth-Century England: Exploring the ‘Royal Letter Book’ (Edinburgh University Library Ms. 183)'

5:15, Centre for Research Collections (6th floor, Edinburgh University main Library)

Despite Scots weather (medieval), past and present @durhammemsa.bsky.social members @areforbes.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social swelled @medievaljay.bsky.social's merry band for tonight's talk @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social. Well worth the trip, which did not disappoint the Indiana Jones setup.

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Next week we will be running a roundtable on 'Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland', co-organised by with the Scottish History Seminar.

The event will take place on Tue 10 Feb, 5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square.

All welcome!

📆Join us on Tuesday 3 Feb for the next CMRS seminar where @medievaljay.bsky.social will be giving a talk about 'Raiders of the Lost Patriarchs: Hebron and Crusader Jerusalem'.

5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square.

Everyone welcome!

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📆 Join us tomorrow for the CMRS seminar where Joanna Martin (University of Nottingham) will be giving a talk about 'Spaces and Places in Hary’s 'Wallace''.

5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square.

Everyone welcome!

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Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Seminars | Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies | History Classics and Archaeology The Centre hosts a seminar series which takes place throughout the academic year and is open to staff, students and the general public

⛪ 💬 ... you can join us on Friday for our first Renaissance Discussion Group, considering religious aspects of material culture in post-Reformation Scotland.

⬇️ Click below for more info on what we have planned across the semester! We look forward to seeing you in the next months.

bit.ly/CMRS2026

📢 ✌️ We're kicking off our event programme for this semester off with two CMRS sessions!

🎨 📜 First join us tomorrow as our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social discusses depictions of Judas in medieval art and literature.

📅 ➡️ Then later this week ...

murder of Abel, medieval miniature, blue background. Abel falling on the green grass while being hit with a heavy hummer by his brother (not visible in the picture)

Why starting 2026 with an #homicide? ⬇️ Have a read at our latest blog @artandinequality.bsky.social to find out about a mysterious #murder, an #inventory and forthcoming #projects and #publications for #ArtandInequality
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➡️ link: www.artandinequality.com/homicide-wit...

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⏰The final @lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social seminar of the semester is tomorrow! Thijs Kersten will discuss their research on singing as a form of protest in late antiquity.

📌Join the group at 17:10 in the Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical Building, followed by a social in Potterrow Dome.

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🪡 ⚔️ Tomorrow our final Renaissance Discussion Group of the year will review work from our own Jess Bailey, on what medieval quilt designs reveal about popular narratives of the time and wider considerations of gender.

📌⏰ Join us at 1pm in Room 3.32 of the Edinburgh Futures Institute to take part!

🔘 📖 The last of this semester's reading groups will be held tomorrow.

⬇️ 💬 Read the below article and join us at 5pm (in Room 1.26, Old Medical School, Doorway 4) to take part!

Discussing/reading from new book 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance', in a seminar format and with flowers on a table.

Hope Doherty-Harrison holding flowers and a copy of her book with a background of book cabinets at IASH, Edinburgh.

So very grateful to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, Prof Carol Richardson, @kateai.bsky.social & everyone who came to talk about my new book with me yesterday evening 💖 and a wonderful flowery surprise from @starcrossed2018.bsky.social and @liederfollower.bsky.social ! 💐

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🎨 In our final seminar of the semester, Neil McClelland joins us from @uofglasgow.bsky.social to discuss his ongoing doctoral research into the the history of art commissions from across the social strata from late medieval and early modern Naples.

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🏙️ ⚖️ Today Andrew Simpson of @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social will join us to discuss one of Scotland’s oldest surviving legal texts, some elements of which are still echoed in modern Scots law.

Edinburgh university staff back industrial action again in longstanding dispute over cuts and redundancies Staff at the University of Edinburgh have today (Tuesday) backed industrial action for a second time in a longstanding dispute over £140million cuts, job losses and compulsory redundancies.

There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here:

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp

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🤝 ⛪ Tomorrow’s seminar will welcome Alejandro Pombo Rial from @usaloficial.bsky.social . Join us as he discusses his ongoing research into social contributions made by churches and monasteries to their local communities.

⚔️ 📜 The 'Venetias' is an epic poem describing a period of conflict between Venice and the Holy Roman Empire. @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 's own Luke Houghton will join tomorrow's group, drawing on his knowledge of Neo-Latin literature to discuss some of the distinct features of this work.

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🐏 👨‍👨 @nicolemaceira.bsky.social will join us this week to discuss contrasting depictions of animals and humans in post-Reformation thought, and their importance in the development of the Reformed faith in Scotland.